Samuel J. Huskey

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Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. Interested in digital humanities and humanities computing. Director of the Digital Latin Library.
Websitehttps://sjhuskey.info/
Digital Latin Libraryhttps://digitallatin.org/
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sjhuskey/
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-8192-9385
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LaTeX code for a basic stemma codicum

LaTeX code for a basic stemma codicum. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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I just described a stemma codicum to ChatGPT-4 and asked it to generate LaTeX code for it. The result was exactly what I wanted. Wow!
I would be most grateful to anyone here who might be willing to share examples of a syllabus (or ideas for one) for a course for undergraduates on data analysis for the humanities. #digitalhumanities
I'm curious about what applications #digitalhumanities scholars use when they interact with Git. If you use a GUI tool, which one do you use and why?
Did or did not Linked Open Data live up to its promises vis-a-vis the humanities?
The most underrated skill in digital humanities and everything under that umbrella is not actually being able to code anything but the ability to read an error and figure out what it means, how to fix it: this thought brought to you by having to confidence-check a PHP question. I don't even *know* php.
I'm compiling a list of abbreviations, terms, and jargon commonly found in #digitalhumanities work. What comes to mind?

Walter Scheidel's review of Tom Brughmans and Andrew Wilson's Simulating Roman economies: theories, methods, and computational models in BMCR (https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.07.11/) includes a call to improve the way we assess digital scholarship:

"The current system of academic training, recruitment and promotion is not well equipped to recognize work that is routinely collaborative, may result in electronic outputs rather than traditional deliverables, and is not overtly focused on the monograph as the basic coin of the realm. All that makes it hard to reconcile with norms and expectations that are deeply entrenched in the academic humanities, most notably in the United States where institutionalized individualism and fetishization of the little-read book rule supreme. Academic incentive structures will need to be tweaked in favor of collaborative and non-traditional work to give simulation studies a chance to flourish."

Simulating Roman economies – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

You know you've been working on a project for a long time when your presbyopia prevents you from reading a seminal work without the aid of a magnifying glass.